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In running a hidden service, the major deanonymization risk is poor OPSEC. There's also the attack described in Biryukov et al. (2013). But there, getting your identity from your ISP is the last step. …

Connections to Tor hidden services do not involve exit nodes. Both user and hidden service build circuits to the rendezvous point. If the hidden service were configured to simply redirect to a clearne …

Aside from the concerns expressed by Jobiwan and Herbalist, there is generally an association between the Windows product key and the user's identity. We know that activation and Windows Genuine Advan …

Your college may be shaping (limiting) BitTorrent traffic when network load is high. Although you might evade traffic shaping by using Tor, using BitTorrent clients via Tor just doesn't work very well …

Your ISP knows that you are using Tor. But it doesn't know specifically that you are using the Tor browser, except of course if you just downloaded it. Also, your ISP may share that information with o …

As Aurora says, just test using speed-test sites. SpeedOf.me is good because it uses HTML5 rather than Javascript. Test several times, stopping and starting the Tor browser between tests, in order to …

You're not doing anything wrong. The Tor browser isn't an installed program. It's just an executable in a folder that you've extracted somewhere. As such, it can't be specified as the default applicat …

Tor browser now uses ./Data/Tor/torrc-defaults. In ./Data/Tor/torrc, there's the warning: This file was generated by Tor; if you edit it, comments will not be preserved The old torrc file was re …

Yes, it does seem that they block Tor. Try https://www.hidemyass.com/proxy via Tor. Just remember that they won't really hide your ass ;)

Install the first Tor browser as directed. Then change the folder name, perhaps adding "a" or "1" to the end. Now install the second Tor browser, and change its folder name, continuing whatever patter …

I just got the same redirect that Roya reported. From https://who.is/ I get that the IP address is 202.57.128.231, and that the namerservers are ns1.guideball.com and ns2.guideball.com. Browsing 202.5 …

If strong anonymity is what you want, use Tor. Reaching the Tor network through a VPN does not increase privacy or anonymity. It merely shifts knowledge about Tor usage from your ISP (and relevant gov …

First, using the Tor Browser, download the latest TBB for Linux, for your desired architecture (linux32 or linux64) and language, from here. Unless you have saved anything that you want in the old TBB …

I've been playing with this. You can snapshot sites using Midori (which saves PNGs) or wkhtmltopdf. In a bash script, echo the current time before starting the snapshot. The file timestamp tells you w …

It must be done manually. There is no interaction between the Domain Name System (DNS) and Tor hidden service hostnames. See this answer about resolution of .onion domains.